Black Literature.

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(Chesnutt, Charles Waddell). Keller, Frances RichardsonAN AMERICAN CRUSADE: The Life of Charles Waddell Chesnutt(Provo, Utah): Brigham Young University Press, (1978). 0842408376 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, in maroon cloth with gilt lettering; in a near fine, lightly rubbed photo-pictorial dust jacket. 304 pages. "A thorough, well-documented study that should counter the underestimation and neglect of this important figure in American literature and race relations."--Sterling A. Brown. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliographical references and index.
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15.00 USD

(Higginson, Thomas Wentworth). Tuttleton, James W.THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSONNew York: Twayne Publishers, (1978). 0805772367 / 9780805772364 First edition. Hardcover. Near fine in pebbled blue cloth with gilt titles and devices to the front cover and spine; no dust jacket. 172 pages; notes and references; selected bibliography; and index. Twayne's United States Authors Series #313. Critical introduction to Higginson who was a militant abolitionist, colonel of the first regiment of black volunteers in the Civil War, an ordained minister who revolted against the doctrines of Unitarianism, and a nineteenth-century man of letters.
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20.00 USD

(Jones, Leroi). Baraka, Imamu AmiriKAWAIDA STUDIES: The New NationalismChicago, Illinois: Third World Press, (1972) First edition, first printing: Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Very nearly fine in illustrated yellow and brown stapled wraps with titles printed in black. 55 pages of essays that are direct interpretations of the doctrine (political philosophy and religion) of Kawaida, the formal teachings of Maulana Karenga. Baraka is an American dramatist, poet and novelist, who has explored the experience and anger of African-Americans. In the 1960s, his works became progressively more radical and involved with issues of racial and national identity. An elusive title.
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150.00 USD

(Van DerZee, James). Haskins, JimJAMES VAN DERZEE: The Picture Takin' ManNew York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1979). 0396076785 / 9780396076780 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in black cloth with silver spine stamping; in a lightly worn, near fine photo-pictorial dust jacket. Based on numerous interviews with Van DerZee and liberally illustrated with some of his best work, this is an intimate portrait of the black photographer who was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. 256 pages, indexed.
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75.00 USD

(Washington, Booker T.) Scott, Emmett J. and Stowe, Lyman BeecherBOOKER T. WASHINGTON: Builder of a CivilizationGarden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. B0008586O4 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Mild bump to spine crown, a lovely near fine, in green cloth with gilt lettering and rules to spine, gilt top-edge, fore-edge untrimmed; no dust jacket. Tall octavo. Illustrated from photographs. "We have simply sought to present and interpret the chief phases of the life of this man who rose from a slave boy to be the leader of ten millions of people and to take his place for all time among America's great men."--preface. 331 pages.
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50.00 USD

(Work, Monroe Nathan). McMurry, Linda O.RECORDER OF THE BLACK EXPERIENCE: A Biography of Monroe Nathan WorkBaton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, (1986). 0807111716 / 9780807111710 Third printing. Hardcover. Fine, in tan-gray cloth with black spine lettering; in a photo-pictorial dust jacket that shows a tiny closed tear to lower rear panel but that is otherwise fine. 154 pages, including index. Though less celebrated than contemporaries W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington, Work devoted his life to improving the life of black Americans--he was a disciple of DuBois and a colleague of Washington's, and worked for 30 years at Tuskegee Institute.
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15.00 USD

Abrahams, PeterA WREATH FOR UDOMONew York: Alfred A Knopf, 1956. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, fresh, virtually as-new, in brilliant pictorial cloth with striking image of an orange African continent consumed in blue flames; in a lightly edgeworn, age-darkened illustrated dust jacket. Typography, binding and jacket design by Herbert Bayer. "Probably the most perceptive novel that has been written about the complex interplay between British imperialism and African nationalism and tribalism."--Saturday Review.
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45.00 USD

Abrahams, PeterWILD CONQUESTNew York: Harper & Brothers, (1950). First edition. Fatigue green cloth with spine lettering in silver. Hardcover. Former owner's name and notation in ink to the front endpaper, else a near fine copy; in a price-clipped and shelfworn pictorial dust jacket with small chips and nicks to the spine ends and flap folds, and several edge tears and associated creases. An historical novel of the Great Trek in South Africa. "Abrahams is regarded as a pivotal figure in the literary heritage of South Africa. The examination of South African political development unifies his work."--THE ESSENTIAL BLACK LITERATURE GUIDE.
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25.00 USD

Abruquah, J.W.THE CATECHISTLondon: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, (1965). B0007J0LDU First edition, first printing. Mild offsetting to endsheets, ownership name and date to front endsheet, else fine, in bright, orange-red cloth with gilt spine titling; in an age-toned, and lightly edgeworn, near fine illustrated dust jacket. Abruquah broke into the literary market of 1960s Ghana with this autobiographical first novel, an account of the narrow religious environment into which he was born. (Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe). With an introduction by Elspeth Huxley.
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35.00 USD

Andrews, Bert and Harrison, PaulIN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT WHITE WAY: Images From The Black Theatre(New York, NY): Thunder's Mouth Press, (1989). 0938410814 / 9780938410812 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. A hint of rubbing to the lower shelf-edges, near fine in black linen over grey boards with silver titles to the spine; in a near fine dust jacket with mild creases to the upper shelf edge and one very short edge tear. Quarto. 150 pages. SIGNED by the author/photographer Bert Andrews to the title page. The marvelous photographs document the history of Black theater from 1957-1984. It is a unique record that reveals in awesome variety, vibrancy, and passion, Black theater in America.
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25.00 USD

Angelou, MayaWOULDN'T TAKE NOTHING FOR MY JOURNEY NOWNew York: Random House, (1993). 0679427430 / 9780679427438 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in maroon cloth over red-brown boards; in a fine, illustrated dust jacket. Words of wisdom and inspiration from one of America's most beloved living poets and author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. Published shortly after her reading at the inauguration of President Clinton.
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15.00 USD

Attaway, WilliamBLOOD ON THE FORGEChatham, New Jersey: The Chatham Bookseller, (1969). Reprint. Hardcover. Lower spine lightly bumped forming a small horizontal crease, otherwise a near fine copy in maroon cloth with the spine lettered in gilt; no dust jacket. A facsimile edition of the original 1941 Doubleday, Doran & Company issue.
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35.00 USD

Baldwin, JamesTHE DEVIL FINDS WORKNew York: The Dial Press, 1976. 0803719167 / 9780803719163 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, unread in maroon boards; in a fine illustrated dust jacket. 122 pages. Baldwin reacts to films he has seen in his life, from childhood memories watching Joan Crawford in Harlem, to provocative interpretations of the biggest hits of the sixties and seventies. He asks us to confront what the films reveal about our culture.
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25.00 USD